Eric Ellis

Eric Ellis was the National Coal Board supervisor in the South Wales mining town of Aberfan at the time of the 1966 Aberfan disaster. Ellis was having breakfast when, at 8:00 AM, three miners rushed into the canteen to warn him of a massive sinkhole forming at tip number seven; however, the miners were unable to prevent 300,000 cubic yards of slurry from flowing down the mountainside and killing 144 people, including 128 children.